87,000 new IRS Agents ... but Veteran homelessness and Veteran suicide
still outpace preventable death and disease ... so I vote, no -- no they
don't have anything better to do than to concern themselves with something
as petty as your alleged DVD fraud.

Thanks,
Alexander

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+

On Tue, Nov 8, 2022, 10:47 Jim via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> The DVDs in question had the annoying trailers, warnings, etc as a
> separate vob file from the video that I wanted.   I tried deleting the
> vob file, but then the menu didn't work.  Vobblanker, a windows app that
> works under wine allowed me to remove the annoying crap and keep the
> menus working.  I rip DVDs using Handbrake and store the resulting video
> files on a hard drive.  I use the DVDs as a backup.  I was curious how
> to remove the annoying crap.  If I'm going to pay good money for a DVD,
> I believe I have the right to back it up so I can watch the video
> without risking wear and tear or damage to the  DVDs I bought. Anything
> I've read on the matter says it's legal to make a backup copy, but not
> to share it with or give it to others.  Also don't the feds have other
> stuff more important to worry about?
>
>
> On 11/6/22 07:50, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > If I had this task, I would rip the DVD then use an editor to cut out
> > the ads.  If I were really adventurous, I might even upscale the DVD
> > rip to HD.  The more I work with 4K, the more I believe it has its
> > place, but not as an everyday replacement to HD.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > George Toft
> >
> > On 11/3/2022 8:06 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >>  I bought some DVDs recently that have those annoying trailers before
> >> the main menu that I can't skip or fast forward to.   Is there some
> >> llnux software that would let me remove those trailers from a copy  I
> >> make of one of the DVDs? thanks
> >>
> >>
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